Ice Chips: Digging Into Last Weekend’s Numbers

With Hockey East conference play just starting to heat up, let’s go inside the numbers. Here are a few tidbits to get us started:

43 — Saves Northeastern’s Chris Rawlings made in his first career shutout on Friday over Boston University. The Huskies freshman is 3-4-0 with a 2.87 goals-against average in seven starts this season.
 
5 — Years BU had gone without being shut out on the road until Friday at Northeastern. The shutout was the Terriers’ second in their last five games — they were blanked by Notre Dame on Oct. 20 for the first time in 100 games.
 
53 — Seconds left when New Hampshire’s Bobby Butler tied Friday’s game against Boston College with his league-leading sixth goal. The Wildcats scored three goals in the third period to come back and steal a point from the Eagles.
 
9 — Number of goals Lowell scored last weekend to take over first place in Hockey East and move to No. 5 in the national poll.
 
50 — BC’s power-play percentage last weekend. After going 4-for-4 to start the game on Friday and eventually finishing 4-for-5, the Eagles tallied two more goals on Saturday against the Huskies.
 
12 — Number of different Eagles who notched at least one point last weekend en route to the team collecting three points in conference play.
 
10 — Assists by UMass Amherst junior James Marcou in seven games this season. He is averaging 1.86 points per game, which ranks him third in the nation.

7 — Consecutive games in which Maine sophomore Gustav Nyquist has notched at least one point. Nyquist notched a goal and an assist in Sunday’s 3-2 win over BU, and his 13 points are tied for the most in Hockey East.

227 — Miles from Vermont’s Gutterson Fieldhouse to Kelley Rink for this week’s Matchup of the Week. The Catamounts have not won at BC since Nov. 11, 1994.